Charging 18350's

[MooseMan]

Just got four Efest purple 10.5 amp, 700 mah, flat top 18350's to go with my Kangside Mini 25 watt thats on order.
My charger is a nitecore D2 and it has a slow charge option. The manuel says slow charge is for small capacity batteries. Does anyone else use this option for 18350's?
All I have used up until this point has been 18650's.

 

[vwfan79]

I have the same charger, mine is a 2015 version digital model and it automatically selects the charging mode.

 

[Jon@LiionWholesale]

Efest rates that battery at 2A charge current or so, and the Nitecore D2 charges very slow even on normal mode (believe it's 0.5A on normal mode and 0.3A on slow mode). So you can definitely use the normal mode. We use Efest chargers here and charge the 18350s at 0.5A which is the slow mode of most chargers and they come out great. It's possible in the very long term that they might last a little longer if you charge them as slow as possible so it can't hurt to use the slower one but I doubt it makes much of a difference if any.

 

[MooseMan]

Thanks for the replies guys!
It's nice to see a vendor share their knowledge with the community like you do, Jon. You learn more in a week about batteries than a vapor will in a lifetime I'd reckon. Thanks a lot.
(BTW checked your site out and next time I'll be getting batteries from LiionWholesale.)